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* EvilKnockoff: Occurs surprisingly often.
**This is the twist at the end of "My Freund's Mother".
** This is also the twist of "My Last Time Babysitting".

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* NauseaFuel: The basic premise of "Holes" is that the narrator is living with her grandparents. Holes keeping being drilled in the walls of her bedroom, her things keep disappearing, and she hears strange sounds at night. It is revealed that there was a homeless man living in the walls of the house, watching her, and died while sexually asphyxiating himself while watching her sleep.



* Squick: The basic premise of "Holes" is that the narrator is living with her grandparents. Holes keeping being drilled in the walls of her bedroom, her things keep disappearing, and she hears strange sounds at night. It is revealed that there was a homeless man living in the walls of the house, watching her, and died while sexually asphyxiating himself while watching her sleep.
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* Squick: The basic premise of "Holes" is that the narrator is living with her grandparents. Holes keeping being drilled in the walls of her bedroom, her things keep disappearing, and she hears strange sounds at night. It is revealed that there was a homeless man living in the walls of the house, watching her, and died while sexually asphyxiating himself while watching her sleep.
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* GenreSavvy: In a refreshing change of pace, the narrator of "Georgie's" spends the weekend at a hotel rather than go to the aforementioned bar that a creepy old man on his bus keeps telling him to go to.
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** "Midnight in Kentucky" is mostly just the narrator trying to leave a dark, abandoned service station while mysterious shadows mess with her car.
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** "I Saw it Coming" has the narrator dreaming of a blood-covered man coming to his door in the middle of the night begging for help. After two nights of dreaming the same thing, he opens the door on the third night and shoots the man. The narrator realizes too late that this time he wasn't dreaming.
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* EyeScream: "They Were Looking Back At Me" is about one of the narrator's friends cutting out one of his other friend's eyes and keeping them in a box in his room.
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** Dr. Masters in "Precious Machine" ends up having her body decomposing and falling apart while she is hooked up to a machine and still alive.
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* MacGuffin: The narrator of "My Best Friend's Grandmother" spends quite a bit of time discussing her best friend's grandmother's backyard, with it's tall, menacing trees, mysterious shadows, and broken bottles. In the end, it has no bearing on the story whatsoever.

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* DontGoInTheWoods: "Laurel Highlands" has the narrator being chased for three days through the woods by a mysterious creature.

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* DontGoInTheWoods: "Laurel Highlands" has the narrator being chased for three days through the woods for three days by a mysterious creature.creature.
* DreamingOfThingsToCome: "A Dream My Mother Had" has the narrator's mother dreaming of being in a house but never opening a door. She finally opens it in one dream and promptly dies the next morning.
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* Don'tGoInTheWoods: "Laurel Highlands" has the narrator being chased for three days through the woods by a mysterious creature.

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* Don'tGoInTheWoods: DontGoInTheWoods: "Laurel Highlands" has the narrator being chased for three days through the woods by a mysterious creature.
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* Don'tGointheWoods: "Laurel Highlands" has the narrator being chased for three days through the woods by a mysterious creature.

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* Don'tGointheWoods: Don'tGoInTheWoods: "Laurel Highlands" has the narrator being chased for three days through the woods by a mysterious creature.



* LostintheMaize: "The Cornfield", to no one surprise, is about two girls getting lost in a cornfield and one of them being killed.

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* LostintheMaize: LostInTheMaize: "The Cornfield", to no one surprise, is about two girls getting lost in a cornfield and one of them being killed.
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* Don'tGointheWoods: "Laurel Highlands" has the narrator being chased for three days through the woods by a mysterious creature.
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* TearJerker: The father in "Can You Hear the Birds Singing?" is flat broke for many years with his young daughter. They finally scrounge up enough money to buy an apartment only to die two weeks after they move in from a fire.
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* TheBlank: The narrator's nephew's imaginary friend in "Silly Boy".



** The little girl in "Tales of a New York Subway"
** The narrator's brother in "Just Another Night"
** The narrator herself(!) in "This is My House"

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** The little girl in "Tales of a New York Subway"
Subway".
** The narrator's brother in "Just Another Night"
Night".
** The narrator herself(!) in "This is My House" House".
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* WhamLine: In "Jack in the Box", a college student and a group of his friends visit the aforementioned restaurant's drive-thru. After several minutes of the girl at the window giving strange looks and frightened glances, the students get their food and return to their dorms. In the morning, the protagonist notices the receipt on the floor with three words written on it by the cashier: [[spoiler: "DON'T EAT IT."]]

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* WhamLine: In "Jack in the Box", a college student and a group of his friends visit the aforementioned restaurant's drive-thru. After several minutes of the girl at the window giving strange looks and frightened glances, the students get their food and return to their dorms. In the morning, the protagonist notices the receipt on the floor with three words written on it by the cashier: [[spoiler: "DON'T EAT IT."]]
** In "Cologne" the very cautious narrator checks ever corner of her house before going to bed. She awakes to her bed shifting under her and the sound of a recorded voice saying: [[spoiler: "No one ever thinks to check inside the mattress.
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* LostintheMaize: "The Cornfield", to no one surprise, is about two girls getting lost in a cornfield and one of them being killed.
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* NothingIsScarier: Occasionally.

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* NothingIsScarier: Occasionally."The Basement" has the narrator hiding in a basement for two hours while he hears strange noises and crashing sounds. In the end, some of the sounds are explained by his neighbor stumbling into his house and dying of heart attack, but the rest of the noises are never explained.
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** In "A Horrible Game", a group of office workers set an air control system to somehow create a tone that causes reality itself to shift, resulting in strange, jerkily-waling gray blobs, a mysterious black shadow that wants to swallow them up, and the narrator being able to see through her coworker's skin.
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* AmbiguousEnding: It's never made clear at the end of "Writer's Block" if the narrator actually killed someone or if the murder was all part of the book he was writing.
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* DeadAllAlong: Many, many examples:
** The little girl in "Tales of a New York Subway"
** The narrator's brother in "Just Another Night"
** The narrator herself(!) in "This is My House"
* FateWorseThanDeath: Steve, the narrator's friend in "A Horrible Game" is somehow dead but still alive while being controlled by a dark, looming shadow that is apparently [[MindScrew reality itself]].
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* TooDumbToLive: It's {{Creepypasta}}. Half the stories would last about five minutes if the narrator didn't say "I knew I shouldn't do it, but I had to."

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* TooDumbToLive: It's {{Creepypasta}}. Half the stories would last about five minutes if the narrator didn't say "I knew I shouldn't do it, but I had to.""
* WhamLine: In "Jack in the Box", a college student and a group of his friends visit the aforementioned restaurant's drive-thru. After several minutes of the girl at the window giving strange looks and frightened glances, the students get their food and return to their dorms. In the morning, the protagonist notices the receipt on the floor with three words written on it by the cashier: [[spoiler: "DON'T EAT IT."]]
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*{{Mundanger}}: Sometimes a serial killer, sometimes just cruel circumstance.


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*ThoseWackyNazis: "Hitler's Favorite Concentration Camp," which is distinctly more action-heavy than most stories to boot.
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*BlobMonster: "Creeping Crimson."


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*InfantImmortality: Averted. It's more surprising when a child ''survives''.

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As of June 2016, it costs $19.95 per season.

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As of June 2016, it costs $19.95 per season.season (from season 3 onward), but partial episodes (usually the first two or three stories out of five or six) are available for free on the website as well as podcast apps.



*AlienInvasion: Implied in "Nine Brief Scenes from the End of the World" and "Low-Hanging Clouds."



* HorrorHost: David Cummings does this sometimes, especially from season 6 onwards.

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*BadSanta: Several in the Christmas episodes. "Chimneysweep" might take the cake, as not only does its Santa swear, get drunk and murder people on his naughty list with a sharpened candy cane, but he's the genuine article.
* BodyHorror: All over the place.
*FantasyKitchenSink: "A Seaside British Pub" - the titular pub's clientele includes a banshee, a were-eel and a succubus, and its proprietor is a sorcerer.
*GhostlyGoals: Even if those goals are sometimes just "kill everyone."
*HauntedHouse: Usually with a twist, occasionally played straight.
* HorrorHost: David Cummings does this sometimes, especially from season 6 onwards.onwards.
*HumanoidAbomination: Again, ubiquitous.
*ISeeDeadPeople: "The Scarecrow Game," though the protagonist doesn't realize it until the end.
*MindScrew: Just ''what'' is going on in "5.5" or "The Showers?"
*MrSeahorse: "The Anomaly."
*NothingIsScarier: Occasionally.
*PoliceAreUseless: To an absurd degree, as are medical services - to the point where the doctors at a hospital in one story ''tell the narrator the address of the nearest pawn shop so he can pawn his car'' to pay for an operation.
*SerialKiller: Everywhere. [[VillainProtagonist Sometimes narrating.]]
*TheSleepless: "The Djinn Bottle."
*TooDumbToLive: It's {{Creepypasta}}. Half the stories would last about five minutes if the narrator didn't say "I knew I shouldn't do it, but I had to."

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The NoSleep Podcast is a Podcast dedicated to Horror Fiction. It's origins arouse from a sub reddit named /x/NoSleep. It features stories of various topics all based around the Horror genre.

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The NoSleep Podcast is a Podcast dedicated to Horror Fiction. It's origins arouse from a sub reddit named /x/NoSleep. /r/NoSleep. It features stories of various topics all based around the Horror genre.genre.


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The Podcast is currently on it's seventh season. Each season consists of 24 episodes, including some bonus episodes.

As of June 2016, it costs $19.95 per season.
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* TheAdjectivialMan: The Midnight Man, The Friendly Man, The Smiling Man to name a few.

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* TheAdjectivialMan: TheAdjectivalMan: The Midnight Man, The Friendly Man, The Smiling Man to name a few.
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* [=TheAdjectivialMan=]: The Midnight Man, The Friendly Man, The Smiling Man to name a few.
* [=AllHallowsEve=]: Most of the Hallowe'en episodes.
* [=HorrorHost=): David Cummings does this sometimes, especially from season 6 onwards.

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* [=TheAdjectivialMan=]: TheAdjectivialMan: The Midnight Man, The Friendly Man, The Smiling Man to name a few.
* [=AllHallowsEve=]: AllHallowsEve: Most of the Hallowe'en episodes.
* [=HorrorHost=): HorrorHost: David Cummings does this sometimes, especially from season 6 onwards.
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The NoSleep Podcast is a Podcast dedicated to Horror Fiction. It's origins arouse from a sub reddit named /x/NoSleep. It features stories of various topics all based around the Horror genre.
The show is hosted by ''[[http://www.thenosleeppodcast.com/david-cummings David Cummings]]'' whom introduces each tale. There are a number of narrators that contribute regularly to the Podcast as well as some illustrators and a composer.
Many of the stories due to the theme are NSFW.

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!! This podcast provides examples of:
* [=TheAdjectivialMan=]: The Midnight Man, The Friendly Man, The Smiling Man to name a few.
* [=AllHallowsEve=]: Most of the Hallowe'en episodes.
* [=HorrorHost=): David Cummings does this sometimes, especially from season 6 onwards.

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